Roxana Saberi Freed!

By Borzou Daragahi
7:11 AM PDT, May 11, 2009
Reporting from Beirut — Authorities released Iranian American journalist Roxana Saberi from a Tehran prison today after an Iranian appeals court suspended her sentence on an espionage charge, said an Iranian judiciary official.

Saberi’s sentence was trimmed from eight years in prison to a two-year suspended sentence after a lengthy appeals court hearing today, attorney Abdul-Samad Khorramshahi said in a telephone interview from the Iranian capital.